Gauahar Khan Reveals She Was Rejected For ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Because She Was Too Good-Looking

Gauahar Khan Reveals She Was Rejected For ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Because She Was Too Good-Looking

There are many times when actors lose out on roles for films and the casting directors cite various reasons for the same. But have you heard of actors being rejected for roles because they are too good-looking for the part they were to play? Well, actor Gauahar Khan has faced this and she lost the blockbuster film Slumdog Millionaire because she was told by the director of the film Danny Boyle that she was way too good-looking for the role.

In a chat with Film Companion, Gauahar Khan revealed that one of the biggest projects she lost in her career was Slumdog Millionaire. She said that she met Danny Boyle and went through five rounds of auditions for the role as well. She recalled that after the fifth round, he asked if she was trained in India, to which she replied by saying that yes, she had.

 

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To this, Danny Boyle responded by saying that she spoke like someone who spoke like an actor who was from outside of India. He had also asked her how does she how his kind of experience. Gauahar replied by saying that she tries and does it every single day. He also went on to say that he will not be able to cast her because she does not have the looks of someone who must have lived in a slum.

 

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Further ahead, the Begum Jaan actress said that she has no regrets about not landing the role as she got roles where the filmmakers thought they needed her to deliver a ‘performance’.

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